Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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From Proto-Mon-Khmer *kuun ~ *kuən (child).

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Noun

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ကောန် (kon)

  1. child (descendant); cub.[1]
  2. child, offspring, young person, young of animals, son, young shoot of a plant.
    Hyponyms: စးကောန်စဴ (caḥ kon cau), (Pak Kret District) ကောန်စဴ (kon cau)
    ကောန်တြုံkon truĥson[2][4]
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    ကောန်ဗြဴkon braudaughter[2]
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    ကောန်ဂၠဴkon glaucalf[6]
  3. member (of a society).[1]
    ကောန်ကွာန်kon kwānvillager
  4. component.[1]
  5. something minor.[2]
  6. something subordinate[2] (also applied to person).
    ကောန်ရဲkon raysubordinate
  7. (Martaban) young person.[1]
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Etymology 2

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Borrowed from Thai กล (gon).[2]

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Noun

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ကောန် (kon)

  1. magic[2]

References

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  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Diffloth, Gérard (1984) The Dvaravati Old Mon languages and Nyah Kur (Monic Language Studies), Bangkok: Chulalongkorn University Printing House
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 Sakamoto, Yasuyuki (1994) “ကောန်; ကောန်တြုံ; ကောန်ဗြဴ”, in Mon - Japanese Dictionary[1] (in Japanese), Tokyo: Institute for the Study of Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, pages 35, 40
  3. ^ Sujaritlak Deepadung (1996) “Mon at Nong Duu, Lamphun Province”, in Mon-Khmer Studies[2], volume 26, page 416
  4. 4.0 4.1 จำปี ซือสัตย์ (2007[2008]) “ลูก; ลูกชาย”, in พจนานุกรมไทย-มอญ สำเนียงมอญลพบุรี [Thai-Mon (Lopburi Dialect) Dictionary] (in Thai), ปทุมธานี: วัดจันทน์กะพ้อ, pages 208, 209
  5. ^ Shorto, H.L. (1962) A Dictionary of Modern Spoken Mon[3], London: Oxford University Press. Searchable online at SEAlang.net.
  6. ^ Haswell, J. M. (1874) Grammatical Notes and Vocabulary of the Peguan Language: To which are Added a Few Pages of Phrases, &c[4], Rangoon: American Mission Press, page 37